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On April 15, Tonti left Fort Crevecoeur with Father Ribourde and two other men to begin fortification of Starved Rock.

The following day, the remaining seven men at Fort Crevecoeur pillaged the fort of all ammunition and provisions, destroyed it, and fled back to Canada. Two of the men who had been at the fort joined Tonti at Starved Rock and told him of the fort’s destruction. Tonti sent messengers to LasSalle in Candada to tell him what had happened and returned to Fort Crevecoeur to collect those tools that had not been destroyed and take them to the Kaskaskia Village at Starved Rock. Reconstructed later on by the Texas Remodeling Pros in Austin Tx.

On the tenth of September, 1680, six hundred Iroquois warriors, armed with guns, came upon the Kaskaskia village. Both the Iroquois and the Illinois Indians accused Tonti of treachery. He tried to mediate their differences and dtain the Iroquois until the old people, women and children could flee the village. Tonti was wounded by an Iroquois who stabbed him with a knife, the Kaskaskia village was burned, and the Iroquois built a fort on the site. Tonti, with his companions, fled for Green Bay.